DevOps Job Trends in Swansea

DevOps
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 16 8 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 5.73% 16.00% 16.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.38% 19.51% 20.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16 5 26
10th Percentile - - £30,000
25th Percentile - £37,733 £41,473
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,124 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% +0.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,515 £53,762 £53,438
90th Percentile £69,375 - £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £45,000 £50,124 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.22% +0.25% +11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 191 41 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 68.46% 82.00% 80.77%
Number of salaries quoted 118 26 129
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,355 £37,733 £46,131
Median % change year-on-year +41.40% -18.20% +13.19%
75th Percentile £68,494 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £79,160 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £45,000 £37,733 £45,000
% change year-on-year +19.26% -16.15% +10.42%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Swansea

DevOps
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Swansea over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Swansea

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (18.75%) Serverless
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) JUnit
1 2 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Mocha
2 1 (6.25%) Newman
2 1 (6.25%) Postman
2 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
2 1 (6.25%) RSpec
2 1 (6.25%) TestRail
2 1 (6.25%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 9 (56.25%) Azure Engineer
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps Engineer
1 9 (56.25%) Junior
1 9 (56.25%) Junior DevOps
1 9 (56.25%) Junior DevOps Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Delivery Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.25%) React Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) React
2 3 (18.75%) Node.js
2 3 (18.75%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (18.75%) Spring
2 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) CSS
3 2 (12.50%) CSS3
3 2 (12.50%) HTML
3 2 (12.50%) HTML5
3 2 (12.50%) Jest
3 2 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (6.25%) Blazor
4 1 (6.25%) ML.NET
4 1 (6.25%) Playwright
4 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) AIX
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Kanban
2 5 (31.25%) Scrum
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (18.75%) Microservices
3 3 (18.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (12.50%) BDD
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (12.50%) Culture Change
4 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
4 2 (12.50%) IT Strategy
4 2 (12.50%) Line Management
4 2 (12.50%) Observability
4 2 (12.50%) People Management
4 2 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 2 (12.50%) Service Design
4 2 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Java
1 3 (18.75%) Ruby
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) WCAG
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) OneLogin
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle